Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks with integrity will be kept safe, 1 but the one whose way is crooked will suddenly fall. 1

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Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

In Context

17If a man is guilty because he has shed someone's blood, 1 he will be a fugitive until death 1 and no one will help him. 1

19The one who works his land will have plenty of food, 1 but whoever follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 22:32The angel of Yahweh said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Look, I have come as someone hostile to you because your actions before me have been wicked.

Psalms 25:21May integrity and uprightness preserve me, 1 for I hope in you. 1

Psalms 73:18Surely you put them in slippery places; 1 you bring them down to ruin. 1

Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, 1 Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. 1 May peace be on Israel.

Proverbs 10:25The wicked are like the storm that passes by, and they are no more, 1 but the righteous person is a foundation that lasts forever. 1

Proverbs 11:5The right conduct of a blameless person makes his way straight, 1 but the wicked will fall because of their own wickedness. 1

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:18

17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. This agrees with that ancient law, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ( Gen. ix. 6 ), and proclaims, 1. The doom of the shedder of blood. He that has committed murder, though he flees for his life, shall be continually haunted with terrors, shall himself flee to the pit, betray himself, and torment himself, like Cain, who, when he had killed his brother, became a fugitive and a vagabond, and… Read the whole commentary →

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